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True History of the Kelly Gang - Peter Carey
True History of the Kelly Gang
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Out of nineteenth-century Australia rides a hero of his people and a man for all nations, in this masterpiece by the Booker Prize-winning author of Oscar and Lucinda and Jack Maggs. Exhilarating, hilarious, panoramic, and immediately engrossing, it is also -at a distance of many thousand miles... show more
Out of nineteenth-century Australia rides a hero of his people and a man for all nations, in this masterpiece by the Booker Prize-winning author of Oscar and Lucinda and Jack Maggs. Exhilarating, hilarious, panoramic, and immediately engrossing, it is also -at a distance of many thousand miles and more than a century -a Great American Novel.This is Ned Kelly s true confession, in his own words and written on the run for an infant daughter he has never seen. To the authorities, this son of di  
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Format: papier
Publisher: Knopf
Pages no: 384
Edition language: Polski
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The Caffeinated Bibliophile
The Caffeinated Bibliophile rated it
5.0 The True History of the Kelly Gang - Peter Carey.
I seem to be having a very Ned Kelly year, starting off with my daughters First Fleet assignment, in which Red Kelly, Ned's father, was the first Irish convict to be transported to the new colony. That was followed up with the musical Ned, in the fitting setting of the old Bendigo Gaol, which has be...
tien
tien rated it
4.0 True History of the Kelly Gang
It's hard to read when you first picked it up as there is practically no punctuation being used. However, it reflects on the 'uneducated' state of Ned Kelly. I had to read a sentence a few times over & actually apply the punctuation in my head to understand but you get used to it after a while. As...
SJane
SJane rated it
Good story and great setting, but I felt it paled in comparison to most of Carey's writing.
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